I am one incident closer to having an imaginary best friend named Wilson because I cannot find what I am hearing over and over and over again in my head.

As the title suggests, I heard a Chopin (or was it Rachmaninov?) composition with both left and right hands playing octaves starting on C# then C (half-step down), then up to F# and then a half-step down to F and this repeated up the keyboard....

What is it? I am going mad...I've been listening to all my CDs and still cannot come up with it.

Thanks,
-Wilson's friend.

_________________Madam, what makes you think that I play with my hands?

Even though the double-octave sections do resemble this pattern a little.

You are understating it. That sequence is indeed there, not literal, but transposed and interposed with repeated notes: A-G#(-G#)-D(-D)-C#. Transposition can be an issue only if you have absolute pitch, and repetitions of course don't influence a melodic pattern diastematically.

_________________"A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking" - Anonymous

You are understating it. That sequence is indeed there, not literal, but transposed and interposed with repeated notes: A-G#(-G#)-D(-D)-C#. Transposition can be an issue only if you have absolute pitch, and repetitions of course don't influence a melodic pattern diastematically.

You are understating it. That sequence is indeed there, not literal, but transposed and interposed with repeated notes: A-G#(-G#)-D(-D)-C#. Transposition can be an issue only if you have absolute pitch, and repetitions of course don't influence a melodic pattern diastematically.

Yeah, I was thinking of the 1st movement of Beethoven's Op. 13 at first (the bass notes while you've got tremolo octaves in the right hand, toward the end of the development), but I knew he wasn't looking for Beethoven, and it wasn't in octaves like he said. But then I couldn't get that out of my head.

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